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Hi,
In the new outlook, I have 6 email accounts. They all transferred in with the transition just fine. However, there does not appear to be a way to know which email accounts have new mail in them other than clicking on each account. And to add injury to insult, when you click on an account, you get another drop down menu.
I am in windows 11 and the 365 subscription version of outlook.
I absolutely need to see at a glance which accounts have new email in them on the main account screen. When an account does have new email, I need to be able to click on that email and have the inbox open with one click and not give me another menu to click through.,
Without these features you are adding a ridiculous amount of time to what should be a two second glance to check emails.
These are not wants, they are absolute needs.
Can anyone help? Or is time to find a new app?
Any help appreciated.
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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I too just gave up on MS with the lack of support or outreach at all. Thunderbird has been quite easy to adapt to and may in fact be more robust. I'm still using all of the other 365 programs, but Outlook just is not cutting it anymore. If you are on the fence, you should give it a try.
If you're going to try some other email apps you may want to avoid BlueMail. I tried installing it and I couldn't get it setup correctly, so I decided to uninstall it. Nothing in the START menu for BlueMail. Checked Programs in Control Panel and nothing there. Relauched the setup disk and it had an uninstall option which only removed part of it. When I booted up in the morning there was a message saying me.bluemail.win could not be launched. Had to hack the registry to remove it. Very poor setup process.
Thankyou for this. It resolves the problem I posted waaaay back .... trying to just list each of numerous accounts I have and displaying the number of new emails after each one. Works great for me so I suppose I will keep using the new Outlook. I do not need a unified single Inbox as others apparently do.....
I gave up on Outlook and this Unified Inbox problem. MS is unable to fix this. The easy solution is to install BetterBird from betterbird dot eu - this is an optimised version of Thunderbird. It also solves some issues of Thunderbird with the authentication issues since the changes from dear MS. I have 20 email accounts from different providers and it has been working without problems for 6 months.
I gave up on Outlook and this Unified Inbox problem. MS is unable to fix this. The easy solution is to install BetterBird from betterbird dot eu - this is an optimised version of Thunderbird. It also solves some issues of Thunderbird with the authentication issues since the changes from dear MS. I have 20 email accounts from different providers and it has been working without problems for 6 months.
Thanks for the reply. I know you mentioned that BetterBird solved some issues and that was the reason for witching from Thunderbird. Since I keep seeing info that said BetterBird is better I thought I would download it and check it out. It automatically grabbed everything from Thunderbird except a theme and an add-on but from a look and feel, both look the same so I'm wondering what you can tell me what I might expect to be different than what I experienced with Thunderbird?